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[quote=Anonymous]You are absolutely correct that these are academic reaches without coach support for football.  Each school adjusts admission standards a little differently for athletes.  That's really why this is early to be discussing with them.  After junior season and tape, junior grades and an additional ACT score you can have a discussion with a number of schools.  Also if the grades stay the same a number of them are likely to tell you that is just not high enough.  It may happen.  That's the variable nature of this.  The flip side of that issue is the admission offices of almost every one of these schools has "diversity" as a stated goal.  In your case the discussion is ethnicity.  In their eyes the ethnicity is bringing diversity to the admitted class and they are motivated to do that.  The coach is motivated to get the fastest, strongest, best tackling players he can who are likely to get good enough grades to stay in school and who will behave in a manner supporting the team.  The shared motivation between the admission office and football coach coincides with a number of these players and you are correct in noting that quite a few are black athletes.

I would say don't be afraid of the academic reach nature of the schools.  The top schools provide beyond excellent academic support for their players and they achieve graduation rates in line with the general student body.  People don't realize how exceptional that is.  The other point in favor of the top schools in the discussion of "diversity" is that they have the means to add socioeconomic diversity to the mix and most elect to do so.  You don't have to have the ability to be full pay at many of these schools where over half are receiving financial aid.

In the circumstance you have described a full-pay black football player with good grades and scores I would begin with the institutions that have the most means to attract the motivated students of all ethnicities.  Almost all of the listed schools have strong endowments.  Understand the stated grades and scores might be below average but that you are nowhere near the first.  Maybe he is not a D1 player.  Maybe he is not admissible to some of these D3 schools.  But with the quality education that is offered at so many of these schools, the support that is given (actually mandated by the typical academic institution coach), you ought to at least have the discussion if the coaching staff has an interest in the player.  If you look at sports granting a player an opportunity he likely would not have elsewhere you may be in that exact situation.

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